Science Methods II Week 2 Blog Post
1. The big question addressed in lab, and a description of what you did - How do we make a race exciting between people who run at different speeds? - This week in lab we created a model of a race between two people who roll on a chair at different speeds. The first thing we did was find the time (in seconds) it takes the two participants to travel the entire distance (in meters) of the course. From this we were able to determine who was moving at a faster rate. Next, we used the difference between the two participants' times in meters per second to determine the head start that the slower participant would get. Once the head start was put in place, the two participants were able to finish the race at around the same time. When we moved this race into the classroom, we realized that some factors we did not take into account were the floor we were on, the different type of ch...